Officials say violent criminal was ‘intending on filing for asylum in the United States'

MS-13 is a one of the most notoriously violent street gangs in the world

US border officials confirm they have arrested a member of the violent MS-13 street gang who was attempting to seek "asylum" in the United States after traveling with a migrant caravan.

The Department of Homeland Security announced on Wednesday that the dangerous criminal was apprehended at Calexico Port of Entry on Saturday.

According to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection press release, 29-year-old Honduran citizen Jose Villalobos-Jobel was arrested by Border Patrol agents assigned to El Centro Sector around 6:00 pm that day.

Officials confirmed that Villalobos-Jobel was apprehended while trying to cross the border into the US, and was "intending on filing for asylum in the United States.”

The 'women and children' in the migrant caravans shortly before tearing the Guatemala-Mexico border fence down

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said she would not put up with this "lawlessness" as American authorities were forced to defend the border breach with rubber bullets and tear gas at the crossing between Tijuana and San Diego.

Mexican officials attempted to use crowd control on Sunday afternoon but were overwhelmed when the huge mobs of migrants rushed at authorities, breaching their defenses.

Massive crowds of mostly-male Central American migrants tried to cut a hole in the concertina wire gap on the Mexican side, before tearing down a fence and pouring through the gap while throwing rocks at US forces defending the invasion.

In a later tweet, Nielsen condemned members of the caravan throwing objects at border personnel, saying: